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12 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
demonstrating [his guilt] have now surely been examined by the
prosecution very, very carefully and over many, many years.”
Demjanjuk was formally charged two months after his extradition: 8
“The prosecution of Munich I has indicted the suspected NScriminal
John Demjanjuk on charges of aiding and abetting the
murder of 27,900 Jews.”
Thus the number of murders in which the Ukrainian is alleged to
have participated had mysteriously diminished from 29,000 to 27,900,
although in the period concerned, i.e. between May and July 2009, no
document has surfaced which would in any way justify this revision – a
truly disarming proof of the assertion that the German judiciary have
examined the matter “very, very carefully and over many, many years.”
Faced with such a situation, Der Spiegel could not but note: 1
“NS-trials are laborious and delicate. Easily, the defendants appear
to be pitiable and decrepit old men who are persecuted mercilessly.”
Still, the Hamburg news magazine took the oncoming trial of John
Demjanjuk to be a necessity by invoking the historian Norbert Frei and
asserting: 1
“The Germans owe it to the victims and the survivors, but also to
themselves, to prosecute Demjanjuk.”
In other words, the old man must be sentenced – regardless of any
legal aspects – because the Germans owe this to themselves!
In the last chapter of this analysis we shall discuss in detail the incredible
perversions of justice committed by the German judiciary – in
line with their American counterparts in earlier days – in the persecution
of a defenseless old man. The main part of the present book is,
however, devoted to the examination of the elements of proof regarding
the alleged mass murders of Jews at Sobibór.
According to official historiography, this camp, together with Treblinka
and Be��ec, was one of the three “extermination camps” 9 in eastern
Poland where more than one and a half million Jews are reported to
have been killed by means of exhaust gases from combustion engines.
In 2002, two of us (C. Mattogno and J. Graf) presented a thorough do-
8 “Ermittler erheben Mordanklage gegen Demjanuk,” Tagesspiegel, 14 July 2009
(www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/Kriegsverbrechen-Mord-Konzentrationslager-John-
Demjanjuk;art1117,2846684).
9 The word Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) does not appear in any German document
dating from WWII. It was coined by the Allies later on.